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<h1>About designing dynamic enterprise dashboards</h1>
<p>A dashboard is a special type of document. A dashboard is commonly only 
 one page long, is intended to be viewed online, and usually provides interactive 
 features that let analysts change how they view the dashboard&rsquo;s 
 data. By being only one page long, a dashboard makes it easy to view the 
 entire document at once and see all of its information. A dashboard allows 
 interactivity from users, so each user can change how they see the data, 
 within the limits of what the controls allow them. </p>
<p>A dashboard is a display of related sets of data on one screen, and 
 it is commonly used to assess company or personal performance, to take 
 a quick status check of the company, or to monitor personal work or work 
 group contributions to overall goals of the business. Dashboards summarize 
 key business indicators, such as revenue and profit margin, by presenting 
 them in visually intuitive, easy-to-read, interactive documents. </p>
<p>The following dashboard presents several common dashboard qualities:</p>
<p class="whs1"><img src="images/Dashboard.gif" x-maintain-ratio="TRUE" width="608px" height="441px" border="0" class="img_whs2"></p>
<p>Common dashboard characteristics in the example shown above include:</p>
<ul type="disc" class="whs3">
	
<li class=p><p>The gauge, which shows corporate revenue at a glance.</p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>The two graphs, which display regional and product performance 
 in an easy-to-understand format.</p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>The buttons at the top right (Corporate, Regional, and 
 Detail Data), which allow a user to view different areas of the business, 
 providing a quick status check across the company. This set of buttons 
 is one of the interactive features of the document.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>More generally, a typical dashboard contains the following characteristics:</p>
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<li class=p><p>Only one page, so that it is easy to view the entire 
 document at once and see all the information. </p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>Used online rather than printed out.</p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>Provides interactive functionality so users can change 
 how they see the data. For example, a user can select exactly which data 
 to see by selecting metrics or attribute elements to be displayed in a 
 Grid/Graph.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>There is no single feature that you use to design a dashboard; you can 
 choose selectors, widgets, panels, and other controls to create a personalized, 
 custom dashboard that suits your user&rsquo;s specific needs. Various 
 formatting options such as gradient colors and 3D effects also help you 
 create dashboards with a style appropriate for the boardroom. For examples 
 with images, see the <span style="font-style: italic;"><I>MicroStrategy Report 
 Services Document Creation Guide</I></span>. </p>
<p>The designer can create more flexible data presentations with dashboards 
 than with documents, since more users can be served with a single dashboard. 
 Each user can interact with the dashboard to display only the subset of 
 data they are interested in (using 
<a href="Panels_and_panel_stacks.htm">panels</a> 
 and 
<a href="Selectors.htm">selectors</a>) or only specific attribute 
 elements or metrics (using a selector).</p>
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